FE1
Main text
As - Autograph sketch
A - Autograph
FC - Fontana's copy
CGS - Copy by George Sand
FE - French edition
FE1 - First French edition
FE2 - Corrected impression of FE1
FED - Dubois copy
FEJ - Jędrzejewicz Copy
FES - Stirling copy
FESch - Scherbatoff copy
GE - German edition
GE1 - First German edition
GE2 - Revised impression of GE1
GE3 - Corrected impression of GE2
EE - English edition
EE1 - First English edition
EE1a - Corrected impression of EE1
EE2 - Revised impression of EE1a
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  b. 16-17

No slur in As & FC (→GE)

Slur to end of bar 16 in A (contextual interpretation) & CGS

Slur to bar 17 in A (possible interpretation→FE→EE)

In A b. 16 ends the line, while the L.H. slur, going clearly beyond the end of the bar, suggests a continuation. However, there is no ending of that slur in b. 17, hence it is unclear whether Chopin forgot to enter it or whether it is the ending of the slur in b. 16, written with a flourish (cf. e.g. the Scherzo in B Minor, Op. 31, b. 60369), that is inaccurate. There is also a possibility that Chopin changed the concept of the slur after having added an octave at the beginning of b. 17 – one can see a crossing-out over the initial version of the 1st quaver in A; it could have concerned the ending of the slur. In the main text we give a slur reaching the end of b. 16; the version of FE (→EE) can be, however, considered an acceptable variant.
The shorter slur of CGS is probably an inaccuracy.

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category imprint: Graphic ambiguousness; Differences between sources

issues: Inaccurate slurs in A, Uncertain slur continuation

notation: Slurs

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